American Experience

Season 11 Episode 10: Fly Girls

During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

37

Episodes:

396

Actor:

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1988

IMDb:

6.5